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muddle-headed mutteringsFri, 18 Oct 2013 16:42:06 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Toil As Citizenship by uppitypeasanthttps://soandsoandwhatnot.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/toil-as-citizenship/comment-page-1/#comment-2
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:42:06 +0000http://soandsoandwhatnot.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-2Thanks very much for commenting – yes I agree, and I think that the situation is only going to get more extreme the longer we do nothing to confront it. We can’t really afford to ignore it and hope it will just go away.
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Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:50:42 +0000http://soandsoandwhatnot.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-1An excellent and timely piece; I thoroughly agree. I think too that the current crop of politicians are attempting to demonize anyone for whom competition is not a top priority. It seems to me that being competitive is now valued in our society even more highly than the content and nature of the activities themselves. It’s as if being the best at something useless, or even damaging’ is valued more than co-operating with others in a worthwhile activity. Consequently all our top politicians tend to be very competitive but not always very sincere or concerned about outcomes. But that value-system is also much swayed by the desire for a large pool of cheap labour to keep the system running, so social engineering by capitalists is hugely conflicted by internal inconsistencies that further disengage politicians from the electorate.
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